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Upcoming Events
St Patrick’s Evening at the Synolda Arms
Following on from the success of our Quiz night in November last year, we are pleased to announce that the Synolda Arms will be reopening on Saturday 15 March 2025 in celebration of St Patrick's Day. Doors will open at 6.00pm and last orders will be at 10.00pm. You...
Green Finger Tips Gardening Club – York Cemetery – a talk by Clive Dawson
The next GFT meeting is with Clive Dawson talking about York Cemetery. Sometimes described as "An Oasis in the City" York Cemetery is a lovely 24 acre spot with 28,000 graves, 17,000 monuments and 2 listed buildings. Clive is an acknowledged expert and he will talk...
Commonwealth War Graves Talk – Green Finger Tips Gardening Club
The next meeting of Green Finger Tips Gardening Club is the postponed talk by Paul Bennett from the Commonwealth Graves Foundation Thursday January 16th 2025 at 7.30pm in the Sand Hutton and Claxton Village Hall. This year gets off to an earlier start than usual with...
2025 Greeen Finger Tips Gardening Club Programme Released
Thanks to the stirling work of our stalwart Committee consisting of John Short, Colin Garner, June Garner, Erica Town, Jan Ward, Claudia Fellner and Mike Sherlock we are pleased to announce the release of the Green Finger Tips Gardening Club's 2025 Programme. Details...
South West Ryedale Community Climate Action Group – Launch Meeting
Following successfully obtaining a grant from North Yorkshire Council to expand our local Community Climate Action Group (CCAG), a Launch Meeting of the South West Ryedale CCAG will take place in Sand Hutton and Claxton Village Hall at 7.00pm on Wednesday 20 November...
Update on the Progress of the Village Hall Towards Sustainability
Many of you will have seen the white vans parked outside the Village Hall over the past few weeks. These belong to the contractors who were awarded the work to insulate the Village Hall by; Thickening the amount of rock wool insulation in the roof space above the Main...
George Winn-Darley writes in the Summer 2024 Circular
Professor Colin Garner as a concerned citizen has set up a Community Climate Action Group for the villages that broadly make up the Harton Benefice designed to help people take individual actions to work towards zero carbon. If you are interested in learning more or...
Report of Community Climate Action Group – Saturday Social 24 February 2024
This Saturday Social attended by approximately 40 people, focused on Climate Action and what individuals could do to reduce their carbon footprint. Organised by the Community Climate Action Group (CCAG) of Sand Hutton, Claxton and surrounding villages, the opening...
2023 Annual General Meeting of the Village Hall
The 2023 AGM of the Village Hall will take place at 4.30pm, Monday 25 September 2023 in the Village Hall. All are welcome to attend the AGM and learn more about some of the developments in the Hall over the past 12 months. This is also an opportunity to ask the...
We have broadband!
As part of the Village Hall's refurbishment programme, we are pleased to announce, that Broadband is now available throughout the Hall. After considerable research, it was decided that BT Business would provide the service to the Hall which went live on Wednesday 30...
Further alterations to reduce the Village Hall’s carbon footprint
We are delighted to have been able to take another step to reduce the Village Hall's carbon footprint thanks to a generous grant from Ryedale District Council's community grant scheme (now subsumed into the North Yorkshire Council). All the existing lighting in the...
Climate Action Group – Sand Hutton, Claxton and Surrounding Villages
Following the launch meeting of our Group on 26 April 2023 at Sand Hutton and Claxton Village Hall, a small steering group of members of our community have met since then to discuss what recommendations can be made to our community to reduce our carbon footprint....
Solar Panel and Battery Project Completed
We are delighted to report that through a generous grant from Energy for All (Centrica) and Ryedale District Council's Locality Budget (many thanks to Cllr Caroline Goodrick, local North Yorkshire councillor)) we have taken the first step in reducing the Village...
Village Hall gains grants for green initiatives
The Village Hall committee has been working diligently over the past few months to reduce the Hall’s carbon footprint by seeking grants to introduce energy savings measures. We are pleased to report that we have been successful in gaining grants for two projects. Find out more about our plans.
2023 Green Finger Tips Gardening Club Programme
The 2023 Green Finger Tips Gardening Club programme can be found here.